All of our catalogs are RLS and no issues We do not use MIM for GRS management - so I cannot comment on that part.
Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Joe Owens > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 9:44 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: RLS for catalogs > > We are experiencing general issues with catalog contention, seeing a lot of > SYSIGGV2 enqueue waits. We have shared DASD between multiple LPARS in a > sysplex > > I was wondering if anyone had experience of using RLS for catalogs, as > introduced with with Z/OS 2.1? > > In particular, anyone using this with MIM. MIM has to be initialised before > RLS can start (several references to this in APARS). We use RLS with endevor > VSAM datasets, and this is not an issue, but as catalog access is so basic to > the system, I am thinking we might have to initialise MIM before JES (and have > it's parmlib in the master catalog), to avoid a chicken and egg situation. > > Just wondering if anyone else has considered this. > > Regards, > > Joe Owens > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN